{"id":256601,"date":"2020-10-01T12:48:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T16:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=256601"},"modified":"2020-10-01T12:48:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T16:48:32","slug":"remembering-rosie-douglas-gabriel-j-christian-dr-dorothy-wills-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/remembering-rosie-douglas-gabriel-j-christian-dr-dorothy-wills-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Rosie Douglas &#8211; Gabriel J Christian &#038; Dr. Dorothy Wills-Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_256603\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-256603\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-256603\" src=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Rosie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Rosie.jpg 480w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Rosie-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-256603\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosie Douglas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Today October 1st, 2020 is the 20th anniversary of the death of Dominica&#8217;s fifth prime minister, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rosie_Douglas\">human rights activist, Roosevelt &#8220;Rosie&#8221; Douglas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Douglas died just eight months after becoming prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>In honor of the late prime minister, Dominica News Online (DNO) shares, with our readers, which both provide some public education about one of the foremost Dominican civic leaders of our time.<\/p>\n<p>The first is by Dominica-born attorney based in Maryland, USA, <a href=\"https:\/\/caribbeanresearchandpolicycenter.org\/bio-christian\/\">Gabriel Christian<\/a> and the other features Dominica- born academic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.concordia.ca\/offices\/archives\/honorary-degree-recipients\/1989\/06\/dorothy-wills.html\">Dr. Wills-Green<\/a>, who became the first African descended dean of a Canadian university &#8211; Vanier.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fTjDbu7zvs8\" width=\"642\" height=\"340\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1AMo5VNZsps\" width=\"642\" height=\"340\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today October 1st, 2020 is the 20th anniversary of the death of Dominica&#8217;s fifth prime minister, and human rights activist, Roosevelt &#8220;Rosie&#8221; Douglas. 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